Tag: food waste

Tips for waste-free food

We’re celebrating the little things our readers do to live more sustainably — because big changes start with small steps. Last issue we asked for ideas on reducing food waste — here are our readers’ tips.

A thought on food waste

Reader submitted

Help curb greenhouse gas emissions with a simple home solution.

Kaibosh to the rescue

Sam Judd meets the Wellingtonians feeding the hungry by saving wasted produce.

Supermarket turning waste into watts

Instead of sending its rotten unsold food to landfill, a US supermarket chain has started using it to generate electricity.

Recycling food waste into pig food instead of sending it to landfill

Reader submitted

Just read this on the NZ Herald website – awesome! These guys take surplus food stock away that can’t be sold because it’s past expiry, damaged etc and use it to make nutritionally balanced stock feed and fertiliser, which then gets distributed to farmers. What a brilliant idea. Imagine what this could

Throwing away food – what a waste!

I thought this infographic illustrates the problem of food waste brilliantly. Yes we have a problem, but what's the solution?